Our search for roses continued the next day, into the Jardin des Plantes. We bused to it, but walked back, across the 5th. It was May Day, another beautiful day, but days of deluge were coming...
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The Jardin des Plantes has a lot of natural history museums,
so you get to see lots of rocks, dinosaurs, other things; basalt
on the right |
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Hoping the Laburnam Arch will be in full bloom when
we get to Bodnant in three weeks |
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| Poppies going strong |
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| Poppy city as far as the eye can see |
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| One of the huge green houses; closed...May Day |
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| Plane tree planted by Mssr. Buffon, original director, in 1765... |
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| Hotel Jardin des Plantes, where we stayed for our 25th anniversary... |
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It looked rather better in 1993...we wonder whether
they ever added air conditioning |
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| Resto in a pretty courtyard |
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| Public baths, creche |
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While supervising publication of Le Encyclopedie; was imprisoned
briefly for blasphemy, treason, etc., but released after protests by the
publisher, booksellers, the intelligentsia, the public... |
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Lived here for a time; really was a menace, as far as the aristos were
concerned
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| Nice private garden |
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Emily used to live here; now in Rome or possibly even
Greece; much to Paris' relief; two different appartements are
currently advertised as available "in Emily's building," at
considerably more than the market price... |
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Gabriel's former restaurant; he's gone too; but in fiction, people
only go away so they can come back... |
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| The line wrapped around the block to get into... |
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| Hot new gelato joint |
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| Rest of the line |
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Did I mention it was May Day, sacred in France? Everything closed but
eateries and drinkeries and touristeries...Luxembourg was as crowded
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